Each question is worth 2 points.
1. Which of the following will happen to data on a diskette if the diskette is re-formatted?
A) only the .com files will be erased.
B) the data will be re-arranged on the diskette (de-fragmented).
C) all the data will be erased.
D) only the .exe files will remain on the diskette.
E) all non-hidden files will be erased.
2. The concentric rings of magnetic space on the diskette are usually referred to by which of the following terms?
A) grooves
B) circles
C) sectors
D) cylinders or tracks
E) spirals
3. Which of the following companies manufactures the microprocessors found in the computers in lab?
A) Intel
B) IBM
C) DEC
D) Microsoft
E) Novell
4. Another name for the "Pentium" microprocessor is which of the following?
A) PowerPC chip
B) 80586
C) P6
D) Warp
E) RISC6000
5. Imagine you are hired to design a computer-controlled weaving loom. The loom has 600 threads and each must be assigned a unique binary number. Which of the following is the minimum number of bits together as a unit that can be used for coding, so each thread would have a unique binary number?
A) 56
B) 10
C) 8
D) 600
E) 16
6.To write protect a 3.5-inch diskette, which of the following must be done to the write protect tab?
A) slide the tab so the hole is open.
B) slide the tab so the hole is shut.
7. Which of the following CAN be done to a write-protected 3.5 - inch diskette?
A) erase the diskette through normal use.
B) save files onto the diskette.
C) copy files from the diskette.
D) infect the diskette with a computer virus
E) all of the above.
8. How does the computer "tell" if the write protect tab is shut or open?
A) a mechanical finger feels the tab to see if the hole is open.
B) a light shines on the tab and, if open, hits a light sensor.
C) mirrors reflect the image of the write protect tab space to the microprocessor.
D) a puff of air is blown at the tab, with a mechanical sensor on the other side.
9. Which of the following computer terms refers to Memory or RAM hardware?
A) CD-ROM
B) SIMM
C) EPROM
D) TCP/IP
E) CRT
10. Which of the following is a World Wide Web address or URL?
A) jleonard@moose.uvm.edu
B) telnet moose
C) http://www.uvm.edu
D) 138.234.120.2
E) 106 Morrill Hall
Here is some QBASIC source code:
REM "EXAM QUESTION!"
SCREEN 9
A=600
B=320
C=20
FOR I=1 TO 15
CIRCLE(A,B),C
B=B-10
A=A-15
NEXT I
11. When the above source code is executed, which of the following is the number of circles that will be drawn on the screen?
A) 10
B) 15
C) 20
D) 300
E) 500
12. When the above source code is executed, which of the following best describes how the program will proceed in drawing the circles?
A) Circles will be drawn from the top right to bottom left
B) Circles will be drawn from the bottom left to top right
C) Circles will be drawn from the top left to bottom right
D) Circles will be drawn from the bottom right to top left
E) Circles will be drawn from the bottom left to bottom right.
13. Which of the following is the reason why disks are used in computers for storage, rather than cassette tapes?
A) Disks hold more data than tape.
B) Disks are cheaper to manufacture than tapes.
C) Disks are more durable than tapes.
D) All of the above.
E) Disks are faster access than tapes.
14. Which of the following computers is the least powerful?
A) Supercomputer
B) Supermini
C) Personal Computer
D) Mainframe Host
E) Minicomputer
15) Which of the following prefixes is appropriate for 1,000,000,000 bytes?
A) Hecto
B) Kilo
C) Mega
D) Giga
E) Tera
16) Which of the following DOS commands would display the default directory list with files listed in columns and rows, showing just the file names and file extensions?
A) DIR/O
B) DIR *.COM
C) DIR/P
D) DIR *.EXE
E) DIR/W
17) Which of the following is closest to the number of bytes you can expect to get on a new personal computer hard drive today?
A) 256 Kb
B) 1,000,000,000
C) 64 Mb
D) 8
E) 256,000,000,000,000
18) Computer viruses are created by which of the following?
A) natural selection working on random electrical glitches inside the RAM.
B) people, using programming languages.
C) modeling programs that run random iterations over and over.
D) elves at Santa's workshop
19) The first programming language, and the person who created it, was which of the following?
A) Fortran, created by Walter Cronkite
B) Ada, created by Bella Abzug
C) Assembly, created by Grace Hopper
D) Basic, created by Ron Reagan
E) C, created by Ayatollah U. So
20) Which of the following IS NOT a programming language
A) Cobol
B) Logo
C) DOS
D) Ada
E) Basic
21) Which of the following media can hold THE MOST data (largest number of bytes)?
A) 8-inch floppy diskette
B) 5.25-inch floppy diskette
C) 3.5-inch high density diskette
D) 3.5-inch double density diskette
22) Imagine you have been exploring the directory structure of the hard disk on a PC, using only DOS commands. You are now at the following prompt: C:\WINDOWS\SYS\APPS> . Which of the following DOS commands will bring you to the root directory (C:\>) ?
A) c:
B) cd\
C) a:
D) http://
E) root
23) Imagine you are still exploring the hard disk on a PC using only DOS commands, and your prompt reads: C:\DOS> . Which of the following DOS commands will copy all of the executable files (and only the executables) from the DOS sub-directory on the hard disk to your working diskette?
A) COPY .EXE C: A:
B) COPY *.EXE A:
C) COPY C: A: *.EXE
D) COPY C: A:*.EXE/DOS
E) COPY A:*.EXE
24) @#$%&{~! You have just discovered that one of your diskettes is infected with a new virus! Which of the following will most surely remove the virus from your diskette?
A) Dip the diskette in Listerine or other antiseptic.
B) Write protect the diskette.
C) Use anti-virus software to scan your diskette.
D) Re-Format your diskette.
E) Store the diskette with cloves of garlic.
25) Which of the following binary numbers is equivalent to decimal number 18?
A) 10010
B) 11111111111111111
C) 011111111
D) 10101
E) 110001
26) The component of the personal computer's system's board that is the "brain" chip, or where all the binary calculations take place is best described by which of the following?
A) Modem
B) RAM
C) EPROM
D) Microprocessor
E) Power supply
27) Which of the following is the closest representation to a valid e-mail address?
A) C:\TELNET\WINDOWS.COM
B) http://www.uvm.edu/~jleonard/
C) f:\SYS\INTERNET.EDU
D) tsalmon@top.uvm.edu
E) uvm.edu.calcom@123
28) A personal computer can have drives A through E (A:, B:, C:, D:, E:). Drives A and B usually refer to which of the following?
A) Diskette drives
B) Hard drives
C) CD-ROM drives
D) Network cards
29) Following along from the above question, Drive C: usually refers to which of the following?
A) Diskette drive
B) Hard drive
C) CD-ROM drive
D) Network card
30) Lastly, following from the above question, Drives D: or E: usually refer to which of the following?
A) Diskette drive
B) Hard drive
C) CD-ROM drive
D) Network card
31) Which of the following has the capacity for storing a larger number of bytes?
A) Standard Compact Disk (CD-ROM).
B) Hard disk on a top of the line PC today.
32) Which of the following is the reason why many users prefer Windows based software (that runs from clicking on an Icon in Windows), instead of DOS based software (that you run from the C:\> prompt)?
A) Windows-based software is less expensive than DOS based software.
B) DOS-based software runs more slowly and less efficiently than Windows based software
C) All windows-based software has the same "look and feel" so it is easier to learn and
remember which menus to use, than DOS based software.
D) Windows-based software takes up less space on disk than DOS based software.
E) All of the above.
33) Imagine you have just received a diskette in the mail from a friend. The brief letter that came with the diskette tells you that the instructions to run the program on the diskette are found in the file README.NOW. You turn on one of the computers in the lab and get to the A:\> prompt. Which of the following commands will display the contents of the README.NOW file on the screen?
A) LIST README.NOW
B) README
C) DISP README.NOW
D) PG README.NOW
E) TYPE README.NOW
34) You successfully display the file from the above question on the screen, but the file is long and rapidly scrolls of the top of the screen. Which of the following would you add to the command from the previous question so the file will be displayed only one page at a time?
A) /P
B) /O
D) *.*
E) \EOF
35) Assume for a moment that you are using WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows (the word processor we used in lab) for writing your resume and you wish to have two addresses listed on the top of the page. One address you want left justified, the other flush right. Which of the following main menus in the WordPerfect for Windows program would you pull down to flush right?
A) File
B) Edit
C) Format
D) Tool
E) Window
36) Now, imagine you are cruising the Internet and discover a fantastic-looking job. The job description is like your dream come true. But, they want your resume no later than 12 noon today! You look at the clock and its 11:32, 28 minutes before deadline. The advertisement says you can e-mail your resume. You are in the computer lab and, thank goodness, have your working diskette with you. You get into PC-pine, compose a message and are ready to retrieve your resume into the Message Text space in PC-Pine. Which of the following commands do you use to prompt you for retrieving the resume file name into the e-mail message?
A) Edit----->Insert
B) Ctrl-R
C) F8
D) File---->Open
E) Ctrl-I
37) Which of the following does ASCII stand for?
A) Association of Statical Computing and Interchange Information
B) Alternate Society of Computer Intelligence Illiterates
C) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
D) Amortization Schedule Coding for International Information
E) American Society for Computer Information International
38) Which of the following would be considered closest to having only ASCII text characters?
A) ABCDefghijk!@#$%`=-[]\'0123456
B) ABCDefghijklmnop
C) ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
D) H2O
E) There are 5.78 X 109 people alive on our planet
39) Which of the following trends is associated with the number of computer chips and the sizes of personal computer systems boards during the last 10 years?
A) bigger boards with more chips
B) smaller with more chips
C) bigger with fewer chips
D) smaller with fewer chips
40) True or false: Home pages on the world wide Web go through a review process so the information contained in a Web page is just as valid and believable as that in a text book.
A) True
B) False
41) One of the warnings in the license agreement of fully licensed software, is that "decompiling" is prohibited. Which of the following best describes what "decompiling" is?
A) removing all product labels from software.
B) figuring out the original source code.
C) altering the binary .exe file so the program will not run.
D) reversing the order in which commands are executed
E) all of the above
42) Imagine you are in the computer lab, and you are looking for the file containing the DOS utility DISKCOPY. You wish to copy this file onto one of your backup diskettes. The lab assistant tells you that the file DISKCOPY.COM is in the DOS sub-directory on the hard disk. Which of the following DOS commands will switch you into that sub-directory, assuming you are at the C:\> prompt (you wish to get to the C:\DOS> prompt)?
A) CHANGE DOS
B) C:DOS
C) DOS \C:
D) CD\DOS
E) DOS
43) Imagine you are using Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows Release 5 and you wish to add up all the cells in column B from row 3 to row 10. Which of the following would be the correct formula to accomplish this addition?
A) ADD:3B-10B
B) SUM:3B-10B
C) B3..B10
D) @ADD(3B-10B)
E) @SUM(B3..B10)
44) Which of the following converts digital signals into analog signals and vice versa?
A) Multiplexer
B) Modem
C) Digitizer
D) Math Co-processor
E) Microprocessor
45) Which of the following hardware has the SLOWEST maximum through-put in sending binary signals?
A) Fiber Optic cable
B) Thick Ethernet Coaxial cable
C) Thin Ethernet Single-Shielded cable
D) 10baseT Twisted pair Ethernet
E) Microwave satellite transmission
46) Which of the following main menus in Lotus 1-2-3 for windows would you pull down to display the formulas in your spreadsheet?
A) File
B) Edit
C) View
D) Style
E) Tools
47) Which of the following characterizes the signals inside the personal computer?
A) Serial and Analog
B) Serial and Digital
C) Parallel and Analog
D) Parallel and Digital
E) Digital and Analog
48) Which of the following software IS NOT a spreadsheet?
A) Visicalc
B) Lotus 1-2-3
C) Qbasic
D) Excel
E) Quattro Pro
49) Which of the following may be happening when the diskette drive light is on?
A) Data is being read from the disk and loaded into RAM.
B) Data is being saved from RAM and written onto the diskette.
C) either A or B above.
D) the computer is about to explode.
50) Which of the following IS NOT an operating system?
A) DOS
B) Unix
C) Lotus 1-2-3
D) OS/2
E) System 7